Bloomberg keeps it interesting by framing this in personal terms. The last paragraphs reveal that at the very least some mixed messages have been going out from the Obama camp about ‘Clean Coal’.<\/p>\n
‘Months before Obama\u2019s campaign remarks about the promise of new technology, he said in a recorded interview with the San Francisco Chronicle last January, \u201cIf somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it\u2019s just that it will bankrupt them because they\u2019re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that\u2019s being emitted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s Energy Secretary Steven Chu had called coal his \u201cworst nightmare\u201d in a 2007 speech. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, Chu said the fuel is a \u201cgreat natural resource\u201d that the \u201cthe U.S., with its great technological leadership, should rise to the occasion to develop.\u201d’<\/p>\n